George Hay

Oswyn Robert Tregonwell Hay, better known by his working name George Hay, was a British science fiction author, editor, and critic. He is notable as a co-founder of the Science Fiction Foundation. He was a proponent of science fiction being seen as "mankind's distant-early-warning system", as it is the only genre in which, facing the long-term problems of history, can be addressed the question of "What to do next?" The primary role of science fiction, as Hay saw it, was "to educate us for that future". David Langford described his mindset towards science fiction as "partly an invaluable educational tool, partly as a neglected natural resource from which ideas could be mined."